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Community Organizing as Resilience-Building The Case of Our Water - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Community Organizing as Resilience-Building The Case of Our Water - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Community Organizing as Resilience-Building The Case of Our Water B.C. About the Freshwater Alliance Supporting active, engaged and diverse communities to realize healthy waters for all in Canada. On Resilience Often used interchangeably
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On Resilience
- Often used interchangeably
with “adaptation”
- “Ability to adapt to changing
conditions, anticipate shocks, build up capacity to recover”
- Government of Canada:
“Adaptation and climate resilience”
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Resilience: On the Rise
Source: Hill & Kakenmaster, 2018
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Resilience: Adaptation + Transformation
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Community Organizing as Resilience-Building
“Leadership that enables people to turn the resources they have into the power they need to make the change they want”
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- Building public support for a
cause
○ Canvassing ○ Recruiting volunteers
- Driving attention
○ Media coverage ○ Town halls or forus
- Influencing decision-makers
○ Meeting with officials ○ Writing letters ○ Signing Petitions ○ Holding demonstrations
Community Organizing as Resilience-Building
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www.ourwaterbc.ca
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Scaling up: Local Issues → Root Causes
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